[Info-vax] LIB$ equivalent of DCL f$type() ?

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In article <b1eda5c2-b345-4842-9fe5-9846a2f9c830 at m25g2000yqc.googlegroups.com>, DTL <didier.morandi at gmail.com> writes:
>Thanks all,
>
>On 21 d=E9c, 17:39, Jan-Erik S=F6derholm <jan-erik.soderh... at telia.com>
>wrote:
>>
>> What is your interpretation of "a number" ?
>
>Not mine, DCL's :-)
>
>DTL> a=3D1
>DTL> b=3Df$type(a)
>DTL> 'b
>%DCL-W-IVVERB, unrecognized command verb - check validity and spelling
> \INTEGER\
>DTL>

In that case, you'd need to look at the SYM block of the symbol in question
and, in particular, at the value in SYM_B_TYPE.  SYM_K_BINARY = 2 = integer
SYM_K_STRING = 0 = string

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